The docu-series Lindsay debuted on Oprah Winfrey’s Network OWN Sunday night in the US, and after a trailer like this, we were glued to the box, bowl of trail mix in one hand, beverage of choice in the other.
The main objective of Oprah’s network is to screen ‘uplifting, inspirational’ content that is the antithesis of salacious, low-brow reality TV, so this isn’t one of those shows where the producers try to create drama.
Still, the series begins following Lindsay just three weeks after she gets out of her sixth stint in rehab at Cliffside Malibu, and shows her going through her storage unit before she relocates from Los Angeles to New York.
Only it’s not a storage unit. It’s basically a warehouse, and not a very organised one at that. Even Lindsay doesn’t seem to know what’s in the boxes. Well, how could she? There’s literally hundreds. We then meet up with Lindsay in New York as she apartment hunts. Here’s what we can gather from the first hour:
She’s a borderline hoarder
As well as the warehouse, Lindsay’s clothes and personal effects are strewn everywhere. At her mom’s house on Long Island, hanging from the rafters and all over the furniture in her suite at the Soho Grand Hotel, where she’s staying as her realtor tries to find her an apartment. While at a fashion week presentation in which her sister Ali walks, Li-Lo decides to switch rooms and her erstwhile assistant Matt gets the salubrious job of returning to the hotel and moving her shit ton of stuff to another room which she might like more. You can tell Matt has never hated his life more than at that moment.
Lindsay Lohan never wears a bra
Ever. Unclear why. Maybe all her underwear is in one of the many boxes in storage?
Her reputation precedes her, especially when it comes to finding an apartment
As she tries to rent an apartment in Soho, the apartment owners drop in a condition at the last minute that Lindsay needs to sign a $10 million liability insurance agreement. That’s ten million dollars. No one wants Lindsay in their building, and when they do, they up the price.
In addition, there were tears over a lingerie photo shoot that turned into a mini-film without her knowing, frustration at being held prisoner in her room as paparazzi hovered outside , and anger with her realtor over his ‘laziness’. After one episode, we actually have no idea how this series, or Lindsay, will end up. But we're certainly excited for the impending – and inevitable – Oprah intervention.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.